Bay of Pigs Invasion America was sponsoring a leader in Cuba named Fulgencio Batista who was the dictator of Cuba before being overthrown as a result of the Cuba Revolution, which began in July 1953 and ended on 1 January 1959 replacing his government with a revolutionary socialist state.
The head of the new government became Fidel Castro, the man tat was leading the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro was a communist revolutionary and he ruled from 1959 to 1976 as Prime minister and from 1976 to 2008 as President. When he started ruling the country as a communist he started to make close relationships with Russia and Nikita Khrushchev. At that time U.S.A. was competing with Russia and they were very close to start the World War III. Russia putted some missiles in Cuba that were directed to U.S.A. So with all these events America was planning to topple the communist government by a trained group of Cuban refuges because they didn’t want communists near them.
Cuba's movement toward a closer relationship with the Soviet Union led U.S. officials to conclude that the Cuban leader was a threat to U.S. interests in the Western Hemisphere. By this fact in march 1960 President Eisenhower ordered the CIA to train and arm a force of Cuban exiles for an armed attack on Cuba and this mission was continued by JFK when he became president in 1961. By this mission U.S. believed that they are going to invade Cuba and start a revolution against Fidel Castro by sending the Cuban exiles.
On April 17, 1961, around 1,200 exiles, armed with American weapons and using American landing craft. The troops were attacking the Bahía de Cochinos on the southern coast of Cuba otherwise known as Bay of Pigs.
But the attack was faced with unexpected counter attackers But the attack was faced with unexpected counter attackers. So because of this, the U.S. plan to make a uprising against Fidel Castro was ruined and the uprising never happened. 4 American pilots and over 100 Cuban invaders were killed in battle and more than 1100 were captured by the counter attackers. Officially this was a disaster and people blamed Kennedy that he didn’t give adequate support to it.
The failure wasn’t only shameful only for Kennedy and his foreign policy, but it was shameful for all the people that helped him and convinced him that the mission is going to success. John F. Kennedy tried to hide the fact that the U.S. was behind the mission and he did it also publicly denying claims that the United States was planning or supporting an invasion of Cuba, he tried to blame CIA for it but the newspapers found facts that U.S. was involved in it.